Sea Bramble Ceramics

Handmade Coastal Ceramics. Made by Lesley. Takes About Three Weeks Each.

Sea Bramble Ceramics is Lesley — one person, making everything by hand, member of the Craft Potters Association, and someone who started making ceramics because she needed more vases and has since found a very sensible reason to keep going. Every piece is hand built, not wheel thrown, which means the forms carry the evidence of the process: finger pinches, thin edges, shapes that are not quite perfect in the way that only handmade things are not quite perfect. Lesley leaves these marks deliberately. She wants the pieces to look handmade, not factory-made, and she has succeeded entirely. Each piece takes approximately three weeks from start to finish — natural drying time plus two firing processes as a minimum — which is why nothing here can be hurried and why each piece arrives having been genuinely attended to.

The palette is coastal pastel: sage green, pink, pale blue, sea green, white, bright blue — the colours of a British beach in the specific quality of light that arrives before the day properly starts. The signature forms are scalloped edges and gentle stripes, applied to soap dishes with drainage holes and small feet, scalloped planters, tealight holders, candle holders, vases and mugs. The scalloped soap dish in sage green has been described, by at least one stockist who put mint on her kitchen windowsill in one, as the longest-lived mint plant in that kitchen's history. This is the kind of specific, domestic joy that Lesley's ceramics seem to produce wherever they end up. Affordable, beautiful, genuinely handmade, and made to be used.

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